Word 2000 in a Nutshell

Formatting Documents

All of Word’s standard formatting options are available in the master document and in all of the subdocuments. If you create new subdocuments from within the master document, those subdocuments are based on the template that is attached to the master document. Creating a blank, new document like the one I used earlier in this chapter attaches Word’s normal.dot to the master template and to all subdocuments created from it, but it’s easy enough to create a master document based on any template using the techniques discussed throughout this book. All subdocuments created from that master will use the same template and thus will have access to the same styles, macros, etc.

It gets a bit trickier when inserting existing documents into a master document, particularly if those existing documents have a different template attached to them than the master document has. This is allowed, by the way: master documents and subdocuments do not have to use the same template. It’s just that a little extra handling is required if they use different templates.

When a document with different styles is inserted into a master document, all of those styles are added to the master document. Note that they are not added to the template attached to the master document.

If Word finds the same style in both the subdocument being added and the master document, it issues a warning (Figure 17-7). Choose Yes to have Word rename the style in the incoming document automatically.

Figure 17-7. Resolving ...